Quotes 41 till 60 of 191.
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Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.
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From the moment I was six I felt sexy. And let me tell you it was hell, sheer hell, waiting to do something about it.
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Give me a man who says, ''This one thing I do,'' and not, ''These fifty things, I dabble in.
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Give me six lines written by the most honorable person alive, and I shall find enough in them to condemn them to the gallows.
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Hardly a book of human worth, be it heaven's own secret, is honestly placed before the reader; it is either shunned, given a Periclean funeral oration in a hundred and fifty words, or interred in the potter's field of the newspapers back pages.
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Have I gotten any threats? All I get is threats. I get at least six or seven a day.
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He was then in his fifty-fourth year, when even in the case of poets reason and passion begin to discuss a peace treaty and usually conclude it not very long afterwards.
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He's five feet two and he's six feet four. He fights with missiles and with spears. He's all of thirty-one and he's only seventeen. He's been a soldier for a thousand years.
The Universal Soldier (1963) -
Hollywood's a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss, and fifty cents for your soul.
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How can you govern a country with two hundred and forty six varieties of cheese?
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I could write six songs in one day with everything that's going on.
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I did know Ted Hughes and I partly wrote the book to explain to myself and others the complexities of a marriage that was for six years wonderfully productive of poetry and then ended in tragedy.
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I don't have a permanent place where I live. I'm in Atlanta about six or seven months out of the year. I gave up on my place in New York. I don't have a place in L.A., but sometimes when I go there for the hiatus, I stay in temporary housing. It's all over the place, and I don't know where I live!
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I finished my first book seventy-six years ago. I offered it to every publisher on the English-speaking earth I had ever heard of. Their refusals were unanimous: and it did not get into print until, fifty years later; publishers would publish anything that had my name on it.
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I grew up with six brothers. That's how I learned to dance - waiting for the bathroom.
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I had six honest serving men. They taught me all I knew. Their names were: Where, What, When, Why, How and Who.
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I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes and six months later you have to start all over again.
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I knew that if I wrote a new book every six months or every year, if I continued to read great books, eventually I would write something worthy of publication. I understood I might be in my forties or my fifties or even my sixties, but I felt confident that it would happen.
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I never had a chance to play with dolls like other kids. I started working when I was six years old.
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I set about fifty-five years ago (1927) to see what a penniless, unknown human individual with a dependent wife and newborn child might be able to do effectively on behalf of all humanity...
Grunch of Giants (1983)Richard Buckminster Fuller
American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, and inventor (1895 - 1983)
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